Estate: Raise the Realm

Welcome to a resurgent world, where it's time to rebuild after the devastation of the Great War. Do you have the prowess to restore a once-great Estate?

In Estate, you step into the shoes of a Noble Leader from a prominent House, tasked with rebuilding your territory in a post-war landscape. Each player begins their journey with a unique set of resources, a special ability, a tailored configuration of construction and citizen cards, a secret family objective, and a devoted workforce ready to start anew.

This worker placement strategy game presents a challenging reconstruction task, where your decisions will shape the future of your Estate across five distinct Eras. Thoughtfully manage your workers to maximize growth and success. Each turn, they can engage in one of four essential actions:

• Play Estate Cards: Use resources to activate powerful citizen or construction cards that will enhance your Estate.
• Gather Resources: Collect vital resources from the central game board to fuel your expansion.
• Produce on Production Cards: Leverage your Estate’s built-in capabilities to generate more resources and cards.
• Draw New Cards: Recruit fresh citizen and construction cards to fortify your burgeoning community.

As you progress through the Eras, your worker actions become increasingly potent, allowing for expansive strategies and greater achievements.

But be ever vigilant for the Era Events! Unleashed at the beginning of each Era, these events can bring about significant changes, either boosting or hindering your progress. Each Era also unveils a public objective that all players can strive to achieve, with rewards for those who rise to the challenge.

With limited time and relentless competition, every choice counts. Strategically optimize your Leader's special abilities and secret objectives to rack up valuable victory points that can secure your triumph!

Game Play Overview:

Estate unfolds across five Eras, with each round featuring a turn-based worker placement system. In each Era, players take turns placing one worker at a time, proceeding in a clockwise rotation. An Era concludes when all players have utilized their available workers.

At the Start of Each Era: An Era Event is revealed, its effects announced, potentially reshaping the game dynamics for all players while introducing a competitive Era Objective. Achieve the objective to earn rewards of victory points, cards, or resources!

During an Era: Each worker can undertake one of four actions:

• Play an Estate Card: Activate an Estate card by paying its resource cost. Enhance your Estate by advancing on the corresponding tracker: Noble (Crown), Production (Money Bag), or Commoner (Scythe).
• Draw Estate Cards: Randomly draw from either the Estate or Market decks and replenish the marketplace afterward.
• Produce on Cards: Activate production cards within your Estate to gain various benefits like extra resources or new cards.
• Take an Era Action: Shift your worker onto the main game board to perform available Era or Progress actions, contingent on your Estate's development stage.

End of Era: The Era concludes once all workers have been deployed. Before resetting for the next round, any cards with end-of-Era effects will trigger, followed by scoring for the Era Objective.

Era Reset: To set the stage for the next Era, perform the following:

• Add one resource to each accumulating resource action space on the game board.
• Refresh the Market by removing all cards and replenishing with new ones.
• All players retrieve their workers back to their Estate player mats.
• Reset the Leader’s Special Ability token.
• Reveal the upcoming Era Event to stir excitement for the next phase!

Are you ready to take on the challenge of Estate and build your legacy? Gather your friends and start planning your path to power!